Nov 21, 09
Roundup: Participatory Medicine, Music Tees and More...
Journal of Participatory Medicine: A Tool for Personal Resilience "Participatory medicine" has been a meme for nearly a decade, describing proactive strategies for wellness ranging from patient peer support groups to collaborative treatment and research efforts. Now the movement hopes to advance and further unify its conversation with the launch of its own peer-reviewed journal. The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JPM) will be published exclusively online using Open Journal Systems, an...
Thank You For Helping to Inaugurate Change!
More than 2,400 people joined us in sending this vital message to the White House. Along with our Inaugurate Change campaign partners, Focus the Nation and 350.org, we at Worldchanging thank you tremendously for your support. President-Elect Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President-Elect Obama, On January 20th, 2009, you will have the opportunity in your inaugural address to speak to the whole world at a moment of grave crisis. Your...
Identifying the Urban Garden with Mobile Phones
This article was written by Sanjay Khanna in August 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Human cognition, formerly harnessed to understanding habitats and bioregions, has adapted ingeniously (and perilously) to the global consumer marketplace. People around the world, even children under the age of three, recognize numerous brand-name products. Yet many of us would be hard pressed to identify five edible native plants in our respective...
Whole Earth in Hindsight
It's no secret that Whole Earth, both the catalogs and the magazine, were huge influences on Worldchanging. Indeed, Stewart Brand has been one of our heroes. Plenty has a sort of oral history of the WEC up on its site. I contributed a few quotes, but the real pay-offs are the lines from some of the early adopters: Kevin Kelly: The catalog’s voice was a breakthrough. There wasn’t a style sheet; they left in most of the spelling and grammar errors. The WEC also had a gossip section. It...
Scenius, Innovation and Epicenters
Ally Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece up about Brian Eno's concept of scenius: Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: "Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius." Individuals immersed in a productive scenius will blossom and produce their best work. When buoyed by scenius, you act like...
PUSH Conference: Day One
By Jessica Chapman 1 p.m. The PUSH conference kicked off this morning at the Walker Art Museum in downtown Minneapolis, with short presentations by Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of Good Magazine and co-founder of Ethos Water (and Worldchanging contributor and friend). Both Nair and Greenblatt are professed optimists--no easy task when simultaneously displaying images detailing global water shortages and abject poverty....
Simplicity: "We Have Met the Enemy..."
The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace. Every increase of needs tends to increase one's dependence on outside forces, over which one cannot have control, and therefore increases existential fear. &mdash E.F. Schumacher, 1973 In the midst of the winter holiday season's explosion of festive commerce, I find myself thinking about voluntary simplicity, a term originally used by Ghandian Richard Gregg in 1936 to describe...
Mobile Phones and an Urban Garden of the Commons
By Sanjay Khanna: Human cognition, formerly harnessed to understanding habitats and bioregions, has adapted ingeniously (and perilously) to the global consumer marketplace. People around the world, even children under the age of three, recognize numerous brand-name products. Yet many of us would be hard pressed to identify five edible native plants in our respective neighborhoods. We get brand attributes, but have trouble with plant attributes -- in spite of the fact that knowledge of...
Pop!Tech Talks Live
Pop!Tech is one of our favorite conferences. Every October, five hundred folks gather in Camden, Maine, for three days of intense conversations about science, technology and changing the world. The Worlchanging-Pop!Tech connection runs deep: Alex spoke there two years ago and will be speaking there again this year, showcasing some of the innovative ideas we cover in the book. Curator Andrew Zolli is a Worldchanger and board member, and past speakers include other Worldchanging folks like...
WC Retro: Biomimicry 101
By Jeremy Faludi, posted October 13, 2005. You probably hear the word "biomimicry" bandied about a lot, but a recent article in an otherwise respectable technical journal showed me how little most people know about it. So here's a quick primer on what it is, why it's useful, and why you'll be seeing a lot more of it in years to come. Biomimicry In A Nutshell Biomimicry--usually called Bionics in Europe--is getting ideas from nature for the way we make or do things. For example, Velcro...
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